St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-09-16
Over 200, 900 Visitors Present
to Witness the Various
Ceremonies.
A Procession Almost Without
An Equal in the City's
History.
President Cleveland Arrives
in the Evening and is
Warmly Greeted.

WHfCu tut IullllOL anu lldll pcOpte, WHO
are temporary residents of this city of
centennials, are thankful, it is the
weather. All the hotels were filled to
overlooking, and every inch of surplus
space had been filed with cots. 1t is
safe to say that there are at least 200, 900
visitors from distance, in addition to
the thousands from adjacent counties in
pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware and
Maryland, and hardly a state or terri
tory remains unrepreSented in the
three-days' festival. The streets to-day
presented an appearance that was
lovely in the extreme. Every arrange
ment had been made by those in charge
and the day was one of the most event
full in the history of the civilized world
The monster civic and industrial pa
geant started from Broad and Dauphin
streets shortly after 10 O'Clock and
marched to Broad and Moore streets, a
distance of nearly five miles, and then
countermarched to the starting point,
| passing through one continuous lifle of
observation stands gaily decorated with
the
FLAGS OF ALL NATIONS.
On North Broad street there was
scarcely house, public or private, that
was not covered with bunting or other
wise gaily decorated. The decorators
strived for novel effects, and in this
they were highly successful. Some
houses were almost covered with heroic
statues Of Columbia surrounded by the
flags Of all nations, while other fronts
were completely concealed with bunt-
ing. The Odd Fellows hall exhibited a
banner announcing that place as the
spot where Franklin drew
lightning from the clouds in
1852" and at other points
busts of Washington were mounted in
front OF the houses and profusely dec
GRATED. Nearly all the side streets lead
ing into North Broad were roped off,
and were filled with trucks OH which
huge tiers of seats were erected and rap
idly sold. The scene at the grand re-
viewing. stand, situated opposite the
Union League club house on Broad
street, just below Ransom, was a grand
one. The stands ON either side of Broad
street were filled with people, and the
gay cOlorS of the ladies' and children's
raiment lent beauty to the magnificent
and elaborate decorations to the various
stands themselves.
There were sixteen telegraph stations
along the route of the parade, which
were established for the purpose of
communicating from one end of the
line to the other, and just as telegram
flashed over the wires announcing that
the pageant started from Broad and
Dauphln streets at 1890 a. M. Gov.
Beaver rode by in his carriage and was
greeted by hearty round of applause.
By IL O'clock
THE DIFFERENT GOVERNORS
and other officials began to take their
places in the grand stand. Section A,
the central portion Of the stand, was re-
served for the governors of the states
with their wives. On this stand also
were senators and representative in
congress, many of whom were present;
the commissioners of the various states
and territories, thirty-three of whom
were present; diplomatic corps, the for
eign consuls and especially invited
guests of the commission. Section B
contained distinguished visitors.
The head of the procession. led by a
Gordon OF mounted police, reached the
city hall, Broad and Market streets at
11:40. The crowd was so immense at
this point that the police had great diff
Guilty in driving them back. The street
was, however, cleared in time to prevent
stoppage of the moving pageant, which
proceeded around the west end of the
city hall and Oh past the grand review
stand at Walnut street. The monster
civic and industrial parade, illustrat-
ing the advancement of the in
dustrial arts and sciences during
the past century, it is believed
fairly eclipsed anything of the kind
ever known. There were in line 800
floats, each bearing representative OF
some particular branch of industry,
1890 horses and $50 bands of music.
At the head of the column rode Col.
A. Loudon Snowden, chief marshal, and
his staff OF fifty aids, standard bearer
and two trumpeters. Directly behind
them and leading the cOlum itself was
the United States Marine band, followed
by grand banner
REPRESENTING COLUMBIA
pointing to the Past with one hand and
with the other. to the PreSent-the former
being represented by old implements
and conditions, the latter by those of
to-day, indicating progress. The ban
ner typified the demonstration and was
drawn on a car by six horses. The dis
play from this point was divided into
twenty-three divisions, each being
under the charge and supervision
of an assistant marshal and sew
eral aids. The honor of heading
the first division was given
to the patriotic order of the Sons of
America, who presented a beautiful
display. 1t was headed by gaiIy dec
grated wagon bearing banners with
notices emblematic of the order. Fol-
lowing this float came band and sew
eral tabelaux on floats typical of events
during the revolution and representing
the different nations which make
up an American population, in
native costumes; beautiful
temple, handsomely decorated, with
thirty-eight beautiful ladies at
the portal, representing the states of the
Union; Uncle Sam, the Goddess of Lib
erty and the thirteen original states
represented by Daughters of America
in costume, and the float on which
stood representations of the school
houses OF a century ago and those of to-
day, surrounded by school children.
Amid the gay holiday attire of the
streets there is nothing more conspicu-
Gus and artistic than the
THREE TRIUdPHAI. ARCHES
that span Broad and Chestnut streets.
The Broad street arch, the principal
one, is almost opposite the main re-
viewing stand, which will be occupied
by the president and his party upon
their arrival. 1t was erected 6y the
centennial commission and is sixty feet
high, springing from each curb. 1t is
of plain semi-circular form and
segmented on the south side
with Illuminated shields of the thirty
eight states forming the union. and on
the north with the names of the states.
the shield and the name of each being
back to back. The thirteen original
states occupy the middle position Of the
group, and the others are placed along
side in the order in which they came
into the union. Surrounding the arch
is mammoth device consisting of an
American eagle and stand of national
cOlors. To give an idea of the enormous
proportions of the industrial pageant
it may be stated that at 2:10O'cleck only
seven OF the twenty-three divisions had